Amazon's AI Coding Agent Was Hacked - Update Now to Avoid Possible Risks, Users Warned
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Amazon Q, an AI assistant exposed nearly 1 million users to account deletion risk
Amazon’s AI programming assistant, Amazon Q, was recently hit by a serious security problem. A hacker managed to sneak harmful code into the tool’s GitHub ... The post Amazon Q, an AI assistant exposed nearly 1 million users to account deletion risk appeared first on Gizchina.com.
Amazon Q Developer Extension Hacked, Highlights AI Tool Vulnerabilities
In a startling revelation that underscores the vulnerabilities inherent in artificial intelligence tools, Amazon’s Q Developer Extension for Visual Studio Code was compromised by a hacker who injected malicious code designed to wipe data. The incident, which unfolded in July 2025, involved a simple pull request that slipped through Amazon’s review processes, allowing destructive commands to be distributed to users. According to reports from Blee…
Amazon's coding AI assistant exposed nearly a million users to a risk of complete erasure of the system, the hacker said he wanted to reveal Amazon's lax security practicesA hacker recently revealed that he had compromised the Amazon Q code generation AI tool. The attacker managed to inject unauthorized code into the assistant's open source repository on GitHub. This code included instructions that, if they had been triggered with...
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